Seedcamp winners 2008

A couple of minutes ago the winners of this years Seedcamp have been announced and toksta is very proud to be on of them!

Congratulations to the other 23 teams with whom we have spend an incredible week in London and special congratulations to the other winners:

  • Uberview (Romania),
  • Kyko (UK),
  • BaseKit (UK),
  • Soup.io (Austria),
  • Mobclix (USA),
  • toksta (German),
  • Stupaflix (Fran.)

More info comming soon…

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Exclusive Seedcamp coverage from toksta

As I will take off to Seedcamp tomorrow (Michael is already in London), I just wanted to remind everyone that you can follow us through the usual suspects: Twitter (toksta) of course and our Blog.

We will do our best to meet and also (video-) interview as many of the great mentors (e.g. Nikklas Zennstrom, Michael Birch or Loic Le Meur - just to name a few) as possible and keep you posted. So stay tuned…

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toksta goes Seedcamp

It’s official: toksta will attend Seedcamp London next week (see official press release here)

We are looking forward to an exciting week in London! For updates, Seedcamp coverage and latest news follow us on twitter (toksta) and read our Blog.

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New release: facebook-like chat bar for toksta IM!

Today we are proud to announce our new release with long awaited and heavily requested features:

Probably the most interesting feature is what we call “the facebook-like chat bar”. Just take a look at the screenshot below and you will get the idea:

As you can see, the chat-bar is placed at the very bottom of the screen to be always visible but never disturbing.

The next screenshot shows the online user search.

And the next screenshot (no, I am not color blind…) pretty much demonstrates the options for the chat bar design customization:

chat bar crazy colors

You can change:

  • The chat background color of the bar and the titles (pink)
  • The background color of the tab hover (turquoise)
  • The bordercolor (dark blue)
  • The text color (white) and font
  • The background color of the layer (bright geen)

Furthermore you can activate or de-activate

  • the friendslist
  • the search filter
  • the gender and
  • the display of the number of online users.

Just go to our customer backend at toksta.com (see screenshot):

Read also our coverage on mashable.com!

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Policemen arresting policeman in front of toksta office

Look at the picture closely and you will know what’s going on…Post your answer as a comment!

Update: This photo was taken from Michaels iPhone which he loves very much.

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Seedcamp London

Just got great news: We’ve been selected for the next round of Seedcamp and therefore will go to London on September 3rd.

Check out the following 2008 application zeitgeist - very interesting:

Question: What are you creating?

Question: How will you make money?

Question: What tools will you use?

Looks like a whole lot of Online-Advertising-built-on-MySQL ;-)

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toksta* wants you!

Get the message? Join the team!

We are hiring international sales people, so drop us a line (jobs[at]toksta[dot]info) and tell us why you will make the difference. Looking forward to hear from you!

Update: And of course toksta wants you to vote!

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toksta @ foerderland.de

Here you can find a short interview (in german) with me from the Blog Foerderland.de. Enjoy reading and don’t forget to vote for toksta ! ;-)

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toksta nominated for best business idea 2008!

We got great news this Friday: toksta has been nominated for the INTERNET WORLD Business-Idee of the year!


The winner will be announced on October 21st. You can vote until October 3rd, so please support us and vote for us >>> HERE <<<

Congratulation to the other startups that have been nominated:

  • addcontents
  • adsclae
  • brands4friends
  • coliquio
  • doodle.ch
  • groops.de
  • guut.de
  • imedo.de
  • jobleads
  • kissnofrog
  • make.tv
  • mamiweb.de
  • mikestar.com
  • misterspex
  • sharewise
  • sones GmbH
  • verwandt.de
  • Young Internet

A special note for our german speaking readers: Unfortunately the description of toksta has quite some mistakes in it. Even though I had a long phone call and sent all the information I could, customer and competitor names have been spelled wrong (deine-tierwelt.de not meine Tierwelt, Nimbuzz not Nimbus), the description of our service sounds rather strange, we are not going to release 10 language versions (see blog post below) etc, etc.

When I read the description I immediately contacted the responsible agency but the text has already been printed. :-( The ageny promised though to at least correct the mistakes in the online version…So let’s hope they get everything right now…


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new language versions coming up!

Getting more and more requests regarding toksta* from all over Europe and even the U.S., we are soon going to release toksta in the following languages:

  • english
  • french
  • spanish
  • russian
  • polish
  • turkish

So stay tuned and bookmark our RSS Feed ;-)

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